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Metal stamper and fabricator Proos Manufacturing, Grand Rapids, MI, announced that CEO Amy Proos has been named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2013 in Michigan and Northwest Ohio. The award recognizes outstanding high-growth entrepreneurs who demonstrate excellence and success in innovation, financial performance and personal commitment to their business and community. Proos is the third-generation, and first woman, CEO and owner of the 94-yr.-old company.

Custom rollformer OMCO, Wickliffe, OH, announced that its president and CEO Gary Shuster has been named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2013 in Northeast Ohio. Schuster joined the firm in 2006, and since that time it has enjoyed a sales increase of 816 percent while adding two new facilities and 800 additional employees.